A prospective study on personality and the cortisol awakening response to predict posttraumatic stress symptoms in response to military deployment

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 713-719

  van Zuiden, Mirjam ^a,b   Kavelaars, Annemieke ^a,c   Rademaker, Arthur R ^b,d   Vermetten, Eric ^b,d   Heijnen, Cobi J ^a   Geuze, Elbert ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Ministerie van Defensie   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childhood trauma; Cortisol awakening response; Hostility; Personality; PTSD; Veterans

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; PATH ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SOLDIER;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 79955879085     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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